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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 11, 1986
Filed:
Jun. 05, 1985
Timothy P Edwards, Mount Clemens, MI (US);
American Safety Equipment Corporation, Troy, MI (US);
Abstract
A safety belt restraint system for restraining a passenger in his automotive vehicle seat has a pair of emergency locking safety belt retractors mounted in relatively close proximity to each other on the vehicle door near a lower portion thereof with a single safety belt strap running therebetween and through associated upper and lower belt guides on the door, there being a single connector fitting mounted in fixed relation to a mid-portion of the strap and being releasably anchored in a conventional safety belt buckle anchor located inboard of the vehicle seat, the retractors having large diameter spools sufficient to wind all of the webbing up adjacent to the vehicle door when the connector is released from the buckle. The safety belt restraint system is provided with a strap lifting assembly for a lap portion of the belt to facilitate ease of the user getting in and out of the vehicle, the lifting assembly includes a track located on the door and a motor to lift a connection element, attached to the lap portion of the belt, along the track when the vehicle door is opened, and a switch associated with the single connector fitting and the safety belt buckle anchor for deactivating the motor in response to removal of the connector fitting from the safety belt buckle anchor.